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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany

by Katrin Kleemann

In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.

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